[Wine] How do I get WINE to see a mounted disc image as a CD?

Gert van den Berg wine-users at mohag.net
Tue Nov 18 22:47:36 CST 2008


On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:58 AM, Elliander <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> I prefer to run games that require CDs from image files, since it is faster and protects the life of my CDs. In windows, I would just mount the disc image and I could then play. But using Wine and Ubuntu, it appears to work differently.
>
> When installing a Windows CD using WINE under Ubuntu 8.10 64 bit, how should I go about mounting a disc image so it is seen by games running under WINE as a CD?
>
Try CDemu? http://cdemu.org/ It actuially creates a virtual CD device
under /dev which is usaful for things such that expect an actual
drive...

(I'm not sure if AcetoneISO actually emulates a drive, or if it just
does a mount -o loop...)

Gert



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